jeudi 23 mai 2013

Daniel Greenfield article: Afghanistan Comes to London

After telling the story of Mohammed’s boast that he would
make the mountain come to him, only to be forced to go to it, Francis Bacon
observed, “If the mountains will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed will go to the
mountain.”

Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen and countless others went
to the Muslim world hoping to turn it into another Boston, another London and
another Paris. Instead Boston, London and Paris are turning into another Kabul,
another Islamabad and another Mogadishu. Mohammed has come to the mountain.

Five years ago, the sight of Muslim terrorists beheading
British soldiers was a horror that could happen in Afghanistan or Iraq. Now it
has happened in broad daylight in the capital of the United Kingdom.

In a decade, 600,000 white Londoners have fled the city. Those
are the sorts of numbers you would expect from the Syrian civil war. Their
place has been taken by the million Muslims occupying the city.

Woolwich
Common, adjacent to the area where the attack too place, is described as an
“inner-city multicultural neighborhood” which is to say that it is more
ethnically diverse than the London average; it has more violent crimes than
average and is among the 5% of poorest neighborhoods. Only 58% of its
population was born in England and a quarter of its residents immigrated in
that same dreadful decade.

Multiculturalism has enriched the area with the Woolwich
Manz, a Somali Muslim gang whose antics have led residents to fear walking the
streets at night.

The Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Social Inclusion and Justice
Division informs us that there are thousands of Somalis in the borough, most of
whom live in Woolwich Common and Woolwich Riverside.

Gang wars over the lucrative drug business have broken out
between the Woolwich Manz and other African gangs. Already in 2007, the
London Evening Standard said that area residents were describing the
Woolwich Common Estate as a “war zone” with stabbings and shootings and a new
generation of child soldiers being recruited into the war. It was a little
piece of Somalia in the United Kingdom.

The two men who butchered a British soldier are believed to
be Somalis. Last year it was reported that dozens of Muslims in the UK were
being trained to fight for Al Qaeda in Somalia. There were concerns over what
those men would do once they returned to the United Kingdom.

Al-Shabaab, the local Al Qaeda franchise, subsists on tens of
thousands of pounds from the hundreds of thousands of Somali settlers living in
the United Kingdom. In 2012, Al-Shabaab terrorists had threatened a terrorist
attack against the UK, saying, “The nightmare that surreptitiously looms on
British shores is bound to eclipse the horrors of 7/7 and 21/7 combined.”

That nightmare still looms. It is the nightmare of the savage
wars of the Muslim world being exported to the United Kingdom.

Last year, Shabaaz Hussain was sentenced
to five years in jail in Woolwich Crown Court for his fundraising activities on
behalf of Al-Shabaab. Five years earlier, Osama bin London and his followers
had been sentenced at that same court for the 21/7 plot which attempted to set
off bombs in a number of London Underground stations. The majority of Bin London’s followers were
African immigrants.

Ramzi Mohammed, a Somali, turned to face a young mother with
a baby in her stroller before trying to detonate his bomb.

Muslim fighters have torn Somalia apart. And importing 200,000
of them into the United Kingdom is beginning to have the same effect. There are
an estimated 70,000 Somalis in Greater London. That makes London the 12th
largest city in Somalia. Nearly 2 percent of Somalia now lives in the UK.

80 percent of Somalis in the UK live in public housing. They
have the lowest employment rate of every immigrant group in the country. And
within four years, they had managed to rack up over ten thousand arrests. Every
effort to integrate them has failed. Rather than the Somalis becoming British,
shards of Britain have become little Mogadishus.

The Somalis are not alone in this regard. Muslim immigration
to the UK has brought the norms of Somalia, Afghanistan and Egypt to the
streets of London. Individual acts of violence can be overlooked. But there is
nothing individual about all these cases. This is a culture of violence.

Islam sanctifies that culture of violence. It takes tribal
killings and endows them with the status of a religious duty. Jihad is simply
gang warfare, no different than the kind practiced by the Woolwich Manz, given
theological meaning. Men have been butchering other men with machetes
throughout Africa. But when a Muslim mutilates a British soldier with a
machete, then he is engaging in a religious ritual.

This is no clash of civilizations because there is hardly
anything resembling civilization on the other side. Islam began with a gang
raiding caravans. It now persists in gangs raiding across Africa, the Middle
East, Asia and Europe.

What happened near Woolwich Commons would not have been
considered extraordinary in Afghanistan, Somalia or Syria. It is only
extraordinary because it has been a long time since rampaging Vikings were
disemboweling the locals. It is only extraordinary because the nation is
hobbled by the assumptions of civilization. And one of those basic assumptions
is that murderers with red hands will not carry out beheadings in your streets.

The United Kingdom has become a civilized place.
Unfortunately its practice of importing savages makes that civilization of
climbing roses and social progress unsustainable. If you import millions of
people who follow a religion that sanctifies tribal violence, then you must
expect tribal violence to tear apart what you have built. And if you do not
wish that to happen, then you must close the gates on the barbarians.

There is no need to go fight the Taliban in Afghanistan. Not
when they are already living in London in public housing and screeching
diatribes about the coming conquest while treating themselves to all the
luxuries of the welfare state. And as their numbers grow, ignoring them will
become impossible.

The butchers who perpetrated this latest atrocity wanted to
be seen. They wanted to break through the media boycott to tell the peoples of
the United Kingdom that they were being murdered in the name of Islam. The
story is already being met with the usual cognitive dissonance and being swept
under the rug, but that just means that the next bunch will try even harder to
convey the message that the war is here.

The immediate shift to
focus on the backlash that is somehow never nearly as bad as the thing
it is lashing back at, the waves of meaningless condemnations from
Muslim leaders who say one thing at press conferences and another in
their mosques and the deployment of the sickening litany of "tiny
minority of extremists" rhetoric are all delaying tactics. But they can
only delay for so long.

Every
Muslim country is either in a state of oppression or a state of war.
Does any European country that populates its cities and towns with
Muslims really believe that it can escape the inevitable trajectory of
this cultural history? The Arab Spring isn't only a lesson in the
futility of trying to combine popular elections with human rights in the
Middle East. Ir's a lesson in the hopelessness of expecting those same
failures to work any better when cultures that choose tyranny over
freedom migrate to the United Kingdom or the United States.

The only thing standing
between the United Kingdom and Somalia, Pakistan, Syria and a dozen
other charming places like these is another two decades of immigration.
And long before the irreversible demographic turning point is reached,
life in the new Cool Britain will be flavored with regional events like
public beheadings, honor killings and religious bombings.

There is no use in proposing that the United Kingdom withdraw from Afghanistan only to come home to another Afghanistan.

Daniel Greenfield is a New York City based writer and blogger and a
Shillman Journalism Fellow of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.